The Lord Mair CBE
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Mair's full title is The Lord Mair CBE. His name is Robert James Mair, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
6 Content(3.7%)
2 Not-Content(1.2%)
154 didn't vote(95.1%)
2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
Not-Content
Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline
Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't
publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-03-09
British Business Bank
My Lords, to follow up on the question from the noble Lord, Lord Ranger, I have the privilege of chairing the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, and we published a report recently on the financing and scaling of UK science and tec
2025-11-26
Visas: Highly Skilled People
My Lords, a few weeks ago, your Lordships’ House’s Science and Technology Committee published a major report on the financing and scaling of UK science and technology. It set out the factors behind the science and technology growth emergency, which is so
2025-05-13
Scientists: Working in the United Kingdom
My Lords, other countries have been quick to act decisively in the light of the Trump Administration’s severe cuts to US science budgets. Is there not a real danger of the UK falling behind? Should this not be addressed very urgently?
My Lords, it was a privilege to be a member of the Built Environment Committee under the expert chairmanship of the previous chairman, the noble Lord, Lord Moylan. Our inquiry on high streets received more than 60 submissions of evidence from many organi
My Lords, I speak as the new chair of the Science and Technology Committee, and pay tribute to my predecessor, my noble friend Lady Brown, for her splendid leadership of the committee over the past three years. I congratulate her and the committee on pro
2024-10-31
Science and Technology: Economy
My Lords, I too am grateful to the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate, for introducing this important debate. Science and technology could not be more vital to the economy than at the present time. As an engineer, both in practice and at Cambridge University
2024-09-12
Higher Education Funding
My Lords, it is a particular pleasure to follow the excellent maiden speech of the noble Lord, Lord Tarassenko. As a Cambridge engineer, I speak on behalf of the whole House in extending a very warm welcome to an Oxford engineer. The noble Lord is a dist
2024-09-05
Housing: Modern Methods of Construction
My Lords, I declare my interests as a civil engineer, both in practice and as an academic, at Cambridge University, and as a consultant to Laing O’Rourke, the company that pioneered MMC in the construction industry. I am currently a member of the House’s
My Lords, it is a privilege to have been a member of the Select Committee undertaking this inquiry, under the expert chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Johnson. I will confine my remarks to technical and vocational matters, speaking as an engineer, hav
2024-07-22
King’s Speech (4th Day)
My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the noble Lords, Lord Livermore and Lord Vallance of Balham, on their appointments as Ministers. I also congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Vallance, on his excellent and important maiden speech—and the
My Lords, I warmly support this Bill. As set out by the noble Lord, Lord Whitby, in his introduction, high streets have faced numerous challenges in recent years for a variety of reasons, notably the falling consumer demand for retail shopping, the incre
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend, Lord Aberdare, for introducing this important debate. I also congratulate the noble Lords, Lord Marks of Hale and Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell, for their excellent maiden speeches.
I will make two points, dec
2024-02-01
Industrial Strategy
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Watson, for securing this debate, and I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Rosenfield on his excellent maiden speech. I will make two points: the first on the timescale and continuity of government funding for any so
My Lords, I declare my interests in the register and congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Brown of Cambridge, and her committee on producing this important and comprehensive report. It rightly emphasises the need for government to have a clear and consi
2023-03-10
International Women’s Day
My Lords, I will take the opportunity of this International Women’s Day to emphasise the vital importance of educating and attracting more women and girls into engineering.
The UK has a real shortage of engineers and there is a pressing need to divers
2023-01-31
Horizon Europe: UK Participation
My Lords, time is running out. Every university and research organisation in the country will provide examples of projects that are now in limbo. They are not being included in new EU projects because they are seen as a risk. Last week the Science Minist
2023-01-12
Preparing for Extreme Risks (RARPC Report)
My Lords, it was a privilege to be a member of this House’s Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning under the expert and excellent chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Arbuthnot. We all welcome the Government’s positive and constructive res
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his responses to many of the questions raised by noble Lords, and of course I thank noble Lords for all their contributions. In particular, I think the Minister confirmed the Government’s confidence in the Catapult Netw
My Lords, it is a great privilege to open this debate on the Science and Technology Committee report Catapults: Bridging the Gap between Research and Industry. This topic could not be more important at the present time: there is an increasingly vital nee
To move that this House takes note of the Report from the Science and Technology Committee Catapults: bridging the gap between research and industry (2nd Report, Session 2019–21, HL Paper 218).
My Lords, it was a privilege to have been a member of this House’s Science and Technology Select Committee under the excellent chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Patel. I too thank him for his leadership in our inquiry on ageing and the production of o
I am indeed, thank you. I was just about to conclude. My final point is this: included in the title of our report were the words “a blueprint for change”. How much of the blueprint will really materialise? There are fears that only a few of our recommend
My Lords, it was a privilege to have been a member of this House’s Science and Technology Select Committee under the expert and excellent chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Patel. I congratulate him on his wise leadership.
Our report, published in M
My Lords, I would like to pay tribute to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh’s enormous and unstinting support for engineering and for Cambridge University, of which he was chancellor for 35 years. Like his predecessor, Prince Albert, His Royal High
2021-03-12
Budget Statement
My Lords, I apologise for the problems with technology.
I speak as an engineer and will make three points. First, a number of the Chancellor’s announcements will be welcomed by the construction and infrastructure sectors. Investing in infrastructure d
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Register of Interests · 9 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Chair of several recent independent technical reviews of Hinkley Point C and proposed Sizewell C nuclear power stations, commissioned by EDF
registered 2024-05-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Expert witness on behalf of HS2 Ltd giving evidence to High Speed Rail (Crewe-Manchester) Bill Select Committee in House of Commons
registered 2023-04-18 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chair of Review by Institution of Civil Engineers for DEFRA on Future Supply of Reservoir Engineers
registered 2022-09-08 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-executive Director and Chair of Board, Epsimon Ltd (infrastructure monitoring)
registered 2020-10-15 · amended 2025-04-05
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Chair of Task Force appointed by Network Rail to review its management of earthworks (cuttings and embankments)
registered 2020-08-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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Member of Independent Tunnelling Expert Panel advising Department of Transport and HS2 Ltd on HS2
registered 2020-08-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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Consultant to the Laing O’Rourke Group (construction company)
registered 2016-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Partner and Consultant, Geotechnical Consulting Group LLP (consulting engineers)
registered 2016-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Cambridge
registered 2016-01-21 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2015-10-29 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2025-01-30 → present
Science and Technology Committee
Chair
+£18,305/yr
2016-05-25 → 2021-01-28
Science and Technology Committee
2020-10-15 → 2021-11-24
Risk Assessment and Risk Planning Committee
2023-01-31 → 2023-11-23
Education for 11–16 Year Olds Committee
2024-01-31 → 2025-01-30
Built Environment Committee
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Engineering Group
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | COWI UK Ltd · Laing O’Rourke · Sizewell C Limited · Thales | 4 | 2027-01-10 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Digital Skills
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 16 | 2024-05-28 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
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0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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Historic bills (all-time)
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year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.